Caring Across is helping to finance and produce its first-ever film featuring a disabled family caregiver! “Take Me Home,” the short film which anchored the White House’s Olmstead anniversary event, is being adapted into a feature-length film. With initial funding from Jane Shin Park, an executive producer on the short, Caring Across aims to raise additional financing for the film in part through philanthropic support.
A percentage of the film’s net proceeds will go directly to Anna, the film’s star, to ensure her ongoing care needs are met and provide her with long-term financial stability. The production process will also be designed to support Anna’s care needs and to allow her to maximize her creative contributions to the project.
The feature is scheduled to start filming fall of 2024, with an anticipated release date in 2025. Caring Across will also lead an impact campaign around the film.
Earlier this year, Caring Across published the Care Inclusion Playbook, a guide to help writers and other creatives incorporate often-overlooked care experiences into their content. Executive and creative teams at ABC, BET Studios, Disney, and Netflix are already using the resource, which outlines common narrative storytelling pitfalls that reinforce ageism and ableism, and highlights ways to depict care more inclusively across age, ability, culture, race, immigration status, sexual orientation and gender identity, and socioeconomic class.
In 2023, we established the Creative Care Council consisting of Bradley Cooper, Brandee Evans, Yvette Nicole Brown, Megan Thee Stallion and others working to shift cultural narratives to more accurately depict stories around caregiving.
We also recently partnered with Participant, HRTS Foundation, and National Domestic Workers Alliance to grant $50,000 to a soon-to-be-announced narrative short film project featuring a new take on care.
